Choose ABBYY FineReader as Adobe® Acrobat® Alternative

ABBYY FineReader PDF is the solution for your everyday work with PDF documents. It offers a wide variety of tools for PDF editing and collaboration at an affordable price — and combines them with ABBYY’s renowned OCR to make working with documents of any kind fast, efficient, and effortless.

  FineReader PDF (for Windows) Acrobat Pro DC
Interact with PDFs
View, interact, and comment on PDF content from your computer, mobile device, or web browser

excl.web browser

 
Access, edit, and store in your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive accounts

excl. Box

 
Compare two versions of a PDF to review all differences    
Create PDFs
Convert documents and images to PDF files    
Create, protect, and send PDFs in popular Microsoft 365 apps for Windows    
Combine multiple documents and file types into one PDF file    
Create a password-protected PDF    
Automatically fix photos of documents to remove backgrounds and adjust perspective    
Create and export PDFs on your mobile device

using FineReader PDF Mobile

 
Turn scanned paper documents into instantly searchable and editable PDFs with fonts that match the original    
Convert and validate PDFs for compliance with ISO standards like PDF/A and PDF/X

Validation not supported, conversion only to PDF/A supported

 
Edit PDFs
Edit PDF text and images with full-page paragraph reflow    
Turn PDFs into editable Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files    
Insert, delete, rotate, and reorder pages in a PDF    
Split a PDF by extracting one or multiple pages    
Add bookmarks, headers, numbering, and watermarks    
Permanently remove hidden sensitive information in PDFs    
Redact to permanently remove visible information in PDFs    
Share and sign
Add comments to PDFs with a full suite of commenting tools including text editing, highlighter, and sticky notes    
Digitally sign, certify, and verify documents    
Turn paper or Word docs into fillable PDF forms

manually

 
Mark PDFs with stamps, such as “approved” or “draft”    
Additional features
OCR Editor: Manual adjustment of Recognition areas detection, scans and photos pre-processing, Customize recognition for specific tasks, Set up import and export options, OCR Project    
Recognize multi-language documents    
Text comparison of image-only PDFs and document scans    
Create PDFs from SVG format    
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Why millions of users rely on FineReader PDF

If you`re looking for an affordable PDF tool with all the basic capabilities of Adobe® Acrobat®, FineReader PDF is the obvious choice to empower your daily work with documents.

Flexible pricing plans: Benefit from one-year or three-year subscription plans

On premise – locally installed, even for remote offline use

Includes ABBYY's renowned OCR with a standardized workflow for any type of PDF

Easy-to-use interface

License-sharing capability

Progressive volume discounts to reach more users for less budget

Case studies

  • Stephan Dharma

    Network Analyst, SoCal Office Technologies

    “I use Abbyy FineReader as a replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro, simply because of the tremendous value that FineReader PDF offers. I use it for work and privately on a daily basis.”

  • Reza Motalebpour

    General Manager, Ingwe Immigration Inc.

    “We are a legal services company and we deal 90% with PDFs. We submit all our applications online in PDF format via the government portal. We currently use ABBYY FineReader as alternatives to Acrobat DC.”

  • Gloria Coleman

    Consultant, Smartwyre

    “We love ABBYY FineReader PDF. We receive the rate cards in PDF format and previously had to copy and paste the individual information into Excel. With FineReader PDF we are able to convert the same document to Excel in less than 5 minutes!”

  • Antonina Pasztetnik

    Accountant, Krigsman Partners

    “ABBYY FineReader gives us the flexibility we needed for the large volume of legal and tax documents sent to our office. We can quickly export documents in any format and search, edit and email them with minimal effort.”

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  • Martin Pipek

    Director of the IT Department at the Hradec Králové branch

    “Many of our employees who work with complex documents say that they could no longer imagine their work without FineReader as it saves a lot of time and saves them from a boring routine.”

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A practical Adobe® Acrobat® alternative

6 things about FineReader PDF you may especially like when thinking about replacing Adobe® Acrobat®.

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ABBYY FineReader PDF as a powerful Adobe® Acrobat® alternative

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Available options of FineReader PDF for Windows

Standard

$ 99 / Year

1 Standalone license

  • Edit, protect, and collaborate on PDFs
  • Create and convert PDFs
  • Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR

Corporate

$ 165 / Year

1 Standalone license

  • Edit, protect and collaborate on PDFs
  • Create and convert PDFs
  • Digitize paper documents and scans with OCR
  • Optimize digitization and conversion routines (5,000 pages/month*, 2 cores)
  • Compare documents in different formats
* Monthly page limitation applies only to automated processing with Hot Folder and resets every 30 days.
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Upgrade your subscription at any time - to a longer term, or from FineReader PDF Standard to Corporate.

You will be billed automatically according to your subscription plan. FineReader PDF for Windows installations are updated automatically after the renewal is paid. Payments will be processed securely by our eCommerce partners. Product registration is required.

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Business licenses

Choose between Standard and Corporate editions and a variety of licensing options for a universal PDF tool. Benefit from progressive volume discounts, network deployment, and simple license management.

  • 1 and 3 year subscription plans
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